The Land Rights for Sustainable Development project seeks to increase youth participation in land management discussions and build awareness of the importance of youth land rights to create opportunity.
A new report by Landesa Tanzania identifies gaps and provides recommendations for strengthening youth access and rights to land in Tanzania.
Amplio profiles Landesa’s use of Talking Books, an inclusive digital audio device, to spread awareness in rural Liberia about the new land rights policies with a focus on youth and women’s land rights.
Reuters mentioned advocacy messaging by Landesa in a report on a new law in Botswana granting land rights to women.
Learn more about Itael Kimaro’s work and lessons learned while interning with Landesa’s team in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania this summer.
The Guardian Tanzania interviewed Landesa Land Tenure Specialist Masalu Luhula for an article on the effects of climate change on Tanzania’s farmers.
Landesa Tanzania provides an overview of Tanzanian law as it pertains to youth land rights, identifies gaps and challenges in youth exercising land rights — including gender-based barriers for young women to access land — and issues policy recommendations for strengthening youth access and rights to land.
Front Page Africa reported on a panel discussion about legal gaps in Liberia’s land rights laws that harm women’s rights to land, featuring remarks from Landesa Land and Gender Specialist Izatta Nagbe.
This report provides a set of clear, in-depth recommendations to the Liberia Land Authority on improving women’s participation in community-level land governance in the implementation of the Land Rights Act (LRA) passed in 2018. These recommendations are based on learnings from primary qualitative research conducted on forest governance structures at 4 case study sites in 3 counties of Liberia on the implementation of community forestry governance bodies.
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